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De krentenbol is naar de rechter gestapt vanwege zijn lage Nutri-Score, Nutri-Score C. Het luchtige rozijnenbroodje eist van de overheid minimaal Nutri-Score B en een schadevergoeding vanwege geleden reputatie- en imagoschade.
“Mijn cliënt stond altijd te boek als verantwoorde snack voor jong en oud”, zegt advocaat Stijn Peerik van Spong Advocaten. “Maar de lasterlijke toevoeging ‘Nutri Score C’ heeft zijn goede naam ernstig aangetast. Mijn cliënt heeft hierdoor talloze klanten zien overlopen naar – excusez le mot – de facking mueslibol. Een traumatische ervaring.”
Peerik verwijt de overheid met twee maten te meten. “Wij constateren een evident geval van willekeur en ongelijke behandeling. In dezelfde supermarkt liggen superranzige diepvriespizza’s met Nutri-Score B. Wat denkt de overheid dat dit doet met een bolletje dat niks anders op zijn kerfstok heeft dan een paar rozijnen en een beetje roomboter? Het is abject, infaam en een naaistreek.”
De landsadvocaat komt morgen aan het woord. De rechter doet volgende week uitspraak.
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After critics and authors picked their top 100 novels we asked for your favourites. From Uruguay to the Isle of Skye, more than 3,000 readers cast their votes. Here’s your list – topped by a new number 1
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Continue reading...After critics and authors picked their top 100, we asked readers to choose their favourite novels. Thousands of votes came in from around the world ... which overlooked masterpieces made the cut – and what has pushed George Eliot off the top spot?
The hobbits have it: topping the chart of what Guardian readers declare the 100 greatest novels published in English is a work of literature that didn’t even feature when authors, critics and academics made their selection. JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is, strictly speaking, a trilogy, although that was by no means fixed during the work’s bumpy journey towards publication in 1954, as author and publisher wrangled over how best to present it. It was composed over the course of many years, and although it was written in English, and in prose, the influence of other languages, storytelling traditions and poetic forms are key to its achievement.
It was chosen by readers from Uruguay to the Isle of Skye, Albuquerque to Sydney. Andrea Clark in Courtland, Alabama, voted for it because: “It has profound meaning about the importance of life, sacrifice, the natural world, corruption of power, the evils of war, generosity of spirit – and a lot more. I don’t know of any novel that is reread so often by so many as this one. It connects with all sorts of people on a very fundamental level.”
Continue reading...This word for outdoing or outshining others originated in the manosphere, but is now thoroughly mainstream. Why is it so popular – and should we be worried about slang that arises from toxic subcultures?
Until recently, if someone had said “mog” to me, I probably would have assumed they were talking about the children’s book cat created by the late great Judith Kerr. If asked about “mogging” or being “mogged,” I would have been completely baffled. But for many members of gen Z and gen Alpha (or anyone who is just a bit too online), the slang term, which means to outdo or outshine others, is everywhere.
Mogging’s origins are in the manosphere, where it began as a verb derived from the acronym “Amog” (alpha male of the group). In misogynistic forums in the 2010s, to “mog” came to mean to outdo someone in terms of sexual desirability. Mogging has been adopted by “looksmaxxing” influencers such as Braden Peters, known online as Clavicular, who encourage men to try to alter their looks – sometimes in extreme ways – to increase their “sexual market value”. Such an influencer might talk of “frame mogging” another person in a photo or video – a variation on mogging that specifically refers to being more muscular.
Continue reading...Conditions that led to bloody prewar protests have been made worse, commentators say
Iran is already preparing for the perilous transition from wartime unity to a fractious peace marked by hyperinflation, a 10% contraction in the economy, power cuts and calls for a triumphalist government to end its unprecedented hunting down of dissent.
With peace not yet secured, the debates within the regime about Iran’s future are only just starting to emerge but its rulers are clearly thinking about how after surviving the war, they can survive the peace.
Continue reading...A wonderful thing happened on a visit to the new V&A East: a very public, taxpayer-funded soundtrack of my life
This is surreal. I’m standing in the new home of one of Britain’s most historically august cultural institutions, and it looks and feels for all the world like a silent disco.
There is a middle-aged white woman to my right, staring intently ahead, swaying gently and bobbing her head as rhythmically as the giant headphones covering her ears will allow. Behind me there is a young black woman, her hair pulled back to give the headset and whatever she is listening to untrammelled passage. She is swaying, rising a bit, then falling: in the room but in a world of her own. Behind me, I see a muscular guy of mixed heritage; his ripped torso is still, his head of braided hair is not, and his face gently creases as he smiles about what he is hearing. My feet are planted, but I’m aware that I’m giddy, as if slightly drunk. There we are, imbibing different musical clips of different things in different bits of semi-darkened galleries, and yet it is a shared endeavour.
Continue reading...Shaun Hancox has created scores of ponds for rewilding projects across Britain – and he says there’s a lot more to it than digging a hole
He is known as “the Picasso of ponds” but the tableaux being created by Shaun Hancox in a boggy field in Somerset currently looks more like a building site. An orange and black excavator is rhythmically removing lumpy clay soil and sculpting it into brown banks.
The result looks like a scar of bare earth on what was once green pasture – but the magic happens as soon as rain fills the newly created depressions. Plants seed swiftly, invertebrates and amphibians rapidly find the water, and life explodes.
Continue reading...Ten years in the making, the greatest show on earth is set for a six-week sprint through Trump’s America
This is the end, of our elaborate plans, the end. Of everything that stands, the end. It seems fitting that football’s latest stopping point on its voyage upriver into the blank parts of the map, a mission so choice that when it’s over you may never want another one, should be a World Cup overseen by a haunted-looking man with a messiah complex, out there operating beyond the pale of acceptable sporting governance, the warrior-poet Swiss lawyer football never knew it needed.
The 2026 World Cup in the US, Mexico and Canada will finally kick off in earnest on 11 June at the Azteca Stadium. From there the tournament will unspool across 39 days, 16 host cities, 104 matches and a 6,000-mile span from Mexico City in the south to Vancouver in the north to Boston in the east. Ten years in the making, the end product of a century of powerplay and hyper-grift, this is by almost any metric not just the largest sporting event ever staged, but the largest event, as we say in America, period.
Continue reading...Brazil’s 1994 World Cup winner on being good without training, his political legacy and why he loves social media
Few people’s interview list over the past year features Neymar, Robert Lewandowski, Xavi Hernández and Iker Casillas. But then not many interviewers have the pulling power of Romário. Thirty-two years after the former Brazil striker was crowned world champion and best player at the 1994 World Cup, he is travelling far and wide to speak with football greats for his YouTube channel.
Romário began his “face to face with the man” project a year ago. “This whole Romário TV thing is a brand-new situation in my life,” he says. “I’m really happy, enjoying it. It’s so cool.
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Arend (35) denkt dat zijn vrouw vreemdgaat: 'Als de kinderen naar bed zijn, knip ik je vingers eraf'
Door buitensporig drugsgebruik belandt Arend in een psychose. Hij denkt dat zijn vrouw 'het' doet met een collega en dreigt met een Middeleeuws verhoor om de waarheid boven water te krijgen.
De Explosieven Opruimings Dienst (EOD) heeft op de Reigerlaan in Vlaardingen een nog niet ontploft explosief gevonden. Het explosief is afgevoerd en in de Broekpolder gecontroleerd tot ontploffing gebracht.
SAN ANTONIO (ANP) - De basketballers van de New York Knicks hebben ook de tweede wedstrijd in de finale van de NBA gewonnen. Het team van coach Mike Brown was opnieuw te sterk voor de San Antonio Spurs: 104-105. Bij rust leidden de Knicks met iets groter verschil (52-56).
Het eerste duel had New York Knicks met 105-95 gewonnen, eveneens bij San Antonio. Nu wachten twee thuiswedstrijden, maandag en woensdag. Welk team als eerste vier ontmoetingen wint, is NBA-kampioen.
Karl-Anthony Towns was met 21 punten de meest trefzekere speler aan de kant van de New York Knicks. Bij San Antonio Spurs kwam sterspeler Victor Wembanyama tot 29 punten.
Het is voor de New York Knicks de eerste NBA-finale sinds 1999, toen werd verloren van San Antonio Spurs. De Knicks wonnen de NBA-titel twee keer, in 1970 en 1973. De Spurs zijn vijfvoudig kampioen. De laatste titel behaalde de club in 2014.
LOS ANGELES (ANP/BLOOMBERG/RTR) - Verschillende Amerikaanse staten bereiden een rechtszaak voor om de overname van Warner Bros. Discovery door Paramount Skydance te blokkeren. Dat melden persbureaus Bloomberg en Reuters op basis van ingewijden. Californië, waar de entertainmentindustrie is gevestigd, neemt daarbij het voortouw.
De deal tussen de twee grote Amerikaanse entertainmentconcerns, die in februari werd aangekondigd, is goed voor 110 miljard dollar. Door de overname ontstaat een fusiebedrijf dat duizenden bekende films en series in huis heeft, naast veel Amerikaanse televisiezenders.
De staten hebben maandenlang onderzoek gedaan naar de vraag of de deal de concurrentie in de Amerikaanse entertainmentsector zou schaden. Hoge functionarissen in ongeveer tien staten zijn inmiddels begonnen met het opstellen van een aanklacht, die mogelijk in de komende weken zal worden ingediend, schrijven de persbureaus.
wing of kaz has added a photo to the pool:
熊本県山都町、八朔祭り大造り物 / Hassaku Festival floats in Yamato Town, Kumamoto Prefecture.
Oxford University students seeking work will be dismayed to learn that crooks have breached a second external platform provider for the university in as many months. The institution’s CareerConnect platform, provided by Group GTI, was the target of the intrusion, which exposed users’ full names and email addresses. Those who don’t use single sign-on (SSO) had their encrypted passwords leaked, too. CareerConnect forms part of Oxford University’s career services department, supporting students and alumni to find work opportunities. It is available to students, alumni, research staff, and recruiters. The same underlying technology powering the platform, which GTI markets as TargetConnect, is used by other universities in the UK and overseas, according to its website. OxfordUni said the May 28 attack was enabled by a “security vulnerability,” which has since been fixed. GTI has not publicly disclosed the security snafu itself, and did not respond to our requests for more information. The London-based tech company has not confirmed how many individuals were affected by the break-in, nor whether any data was stolen. It has also not explicitly stated which types of individuals were affected, although Oxford’s announcement listed “alumni, research staff, and employer users” as those who had their passwords forcibly reset following the attack. “There is no evidence that course information, uploaded files, appointment information, or financial information were involved in this incident,” the announcement went on to say. “GTI has stated this breach appeared to be focused on gathering credentials which may lead to phishing attempts.” The university did not list current students as among those affected, but told student newspaper Cherwell that names and email addresses might be compromised, and said the attack was entirely separate from the one which hit Instructure’s Canvas last month. Twice bitten Oxford University was just one of the circa 8,800 educational institutions affected by the mega breach at Canvas, a separate platform that’s also relied upon by schools, colleges, and universities. Seemingly timed by ShinyHunters to coincide with exam season, students across multiple countries were left without access to learning materials, tests, and grades at a pivotal time of the year. The scale of the attack was vast, affecting the usernames, email addresses, course names, enrollment information, and messages of up to 275 million students, teachers, and staff. The severity of the situation, coupled with the inopportune timing, led to Instructure “reaching an agreement” with ShinyHunters to prevent the criminal gang from leaking all the data online. In cyberese, this implies Instructure paid the criminals an extortion fee in exchange for their word that they would delete the stolen data. "We received digital confirmation of data destruction (shred logs)," Instructure said, adding "We have been informed that no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident, publicly or otherwise." ®
